ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, ON WEDNESDAY THE FOURTH OF MARCH, IN THE YEAR M,DCC,LXXIX: AND OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES THE THIRTEENTH. VOLUME I.

Philadelphia: Printed by E. Oswald, 1793. 375, [49] pp, as issued. Acts of all three Sessions of the First Congress, paginated continuously. First Session, 122 pages; Second Session, pages [123]- 286; Third Session, pages 287-360; followed by "Appendix, containing such acts of the Congress under the Confederation, as may be thought most important to be generally known in the administration of the present government," pages [361]-375. followed by unpaginated Table of Contents [for each Session], and Index. Bound in modern calf, new endpapers [portion of original endpaper with 1794 ownership signature of John Davis laid down. Scattered spotting. Two wormholes (truncated) at leaf 13-14 affecting several letters. Good plus or so.

The Constitution, without Amendments, is printed, followed by Acts of the three Sessions of the First Congress. The Appendix includes the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation.
The First Session convened on March 4, 1789; the Second on January 4, 1790; and the Third on December 6, 1790. Printed here, among other landmarks, are the first Judiciary Act, establishing "the Judicial Courts of the United States;" the Census; the definition of Treason; North Carolina's land cessions; the Military Establishment; creating the seat of Government at the District of Columbia; admiralty; taxation and duties; admission of Kentucky into the Union from the Virginia Cession; admission of Vermont; the Bank of the United States; the Whisky Tax; establishment of the Post Office and Post Roads, etc., etc., etc. Each Act has its date of approval, with the signature of President Washington in type.
ESTC W14824. Bristol B8506. Shipton & Mooney 46908. (Inventory #: 41013)